Biography
American actress Catherine Ross for his career was not shot in one dozen paintings. The best roles in which the audience saw a woman on the screens went to her in the films "Graduates", "Buch Cassidy and Sandens Kit", as well as in the "Travel of Cursed".Childhood and youth
Catherine was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in January 1940. Her father was called Dudley Ross, at the time of his birthday, a man served in a fleet. Some time with the family girl lived there, and later they moved to the suburb of San Francisco.
In 1957, she graduated from school in 1957, then he entered the College of Diablo-Valley. Being a student, Ross begins to learn the basics of acting work, it was at that time a girl played the first role in the film, participation in the filming and fellow students of beginner artist.
However, not only attracted Catherine in his youth, she also fond of horse riding and even some time seriously engaged in this sport. At that time, the girl was friends with Casey Tibbs - an American rider and a member of numerous Rodeo.
Films
The following shooting in the biography of Ross appeared a small segment of time. This is the serial "smoke from the trunk", which, however, did not bring a great popularity to the girl. Further, she had other secondary roles, for example, in the "caravan of carts", "Verginz" and "Arrest and the trial".
The first important work for the work of Catherine took place in 1967. Melodrama Mike Nichols "Graduates" with Dustin Hoffmann, Ann Bankroft and William Daniels spectators appreciated. The picture tells about the guy named Benjamen Braddock, who, after the end of the college, returns to the house to his parents in Los Angeles. And then the whole series of endless friendly visits begins.
On one of these techniques, a young man meets a family friend - an elegant lady of Balzakovsky age. A woman falls in love with a young man and begins to pursue him. Without another exit, the guy comes into an intimate connection with it. Having learned about this, his mother turns into a "vented witch", and the plot acquires a completely new turn.
For the world film rental of the film managed to rescue $ 100 million. In addition, Eilie Robinson, which reincarnated Ross, noted critics. For her in 1968, the girl nominated for Oscar as the best actress of the second plan, and also awarded the Golden Globe in the nomination "The Best Debut of Actresses." From that moment on, Catherine starts to invite more often to films, directors will know about her, and in the filmography of the artist, it is soon replenished with new, no less successful tapes.
Further in the list of works of Ross appears a picture of Tom Graza "Fools", the drama "Accident and Violence" and the adventure fighter "Hell Fighters". And in 1969, the girl is filmed in the western of George Roy Hill "Buch Cassidy and Sandens Kid". In this tape, Catherine worked on the same platform with Paul Newman and Robert Radford. For a talented game in 1971, she received a BAFTA award in the "Best Actress" nomination.
The plot of the paintings tells about two comrades known in the district as the gangs of the Gang "Hole in the Wall". Sandens is an excellent shooter and an excellent performer of any instruments, and the boob acts as a brain center. Guys twice manage to rob the train transporting money. The police are organized by the pursuit of them, leads it an experienced tracker of Baltimore.
Up to this point, no criminal left the policeman. Robbers with difficulty break away from persecution and hide in the house of Samandens, Etta Place, whose role and ruled Ross. Since in this place they "catch" there is nothing more, Buch wants to try happiness in Bolivia.
In 1975, Catherine again gets the main role, this time in Kinian Brian Forbes "Stepford Wives." The horror film tells about the girl Joanne, who decides with the spouse to move from the noisy Manhattan in the quiet Stepford. Nothing foreshadowed troubles, but all women's women look suspiciously strange, each creates the impression of a diligent, exemplary mistress, a faithful husband. Only they are stupid conversations.
The more the heroine spends there, the stronger it is convinced that some kind of hell is going on in this city. For his play in Ross Ross received the Saturn Prize as the best actress.
Next, a few more roles appear in the biography of the artist. In 1981, a woman is filmed in the painting "Murder in Texas", in 1986 - in the "Redjob Wanderer", and in 1991 - in the "Murder's weather". She also tried himself in voice acting, lovers of cartoon series "Griffins" and "American Dad" heard her voice in some series.
And in 2001, Catherine played one of the roles in the fantastic thriller Donney Darco, who collected more than $ 1 million in American rental more than $ 1 million in 2006. "The woman appeared in front of the audience in the Brett Hayley" Hero "melodraum.
Personal life
American American life is saturated with novels and love relationships. She married 5 times, but fate was not favorable. The first spouse actresses became Joel Fabiani, he also worked in the film industry, starred in drams and criminal detectives. Young people divorced in 1962. And after 2 years, Ross goes under a crown with John Morion. But these relationships lasted for a short time - 3 years.
The actress tries to associate life with American cinematographer, one of the leading masters of Hollywood by Conrad Hall. I got acquainted with him on the shooting area of the tape "Buch Cassidy and Sandens Kid". They broke up in 1973. The fourth husband of the actress was Gaetano Lisi. There were no children with any of these spouses.
Now Ross is married to actor Sam Elliott. They first met in 1969 on the set of the painting "Buch Cassidy and Sandans Kid". However, then their relationships did not work out. Again, they succeeded only in 1978, when working on the film "Heritage". Artists married in 1984, 4 months before the birth of the only daughter Cleo.
Catherine Ross now
Catherine and today consists in excellent relations with his spouse, they live on their own ranch in California and feel great. Probably, in the old age star pair, I would like to take a break from numerous filming, but the fans do not cease to hope that they will see the favorite actors in the televisions in 2019.
In the meantime, the press periodically appear articles about the "Hollywood History of Love", which describe the meeting and joint work of Sam and Catherine. A cute photo of a couple usually applied to the story, on which a man and a woman looks harmonious. In such pictures, Elliott gently hugs a miniature wife (height 160 cm. Weight 58 kg) and not getting tired emit a smile.
Filmography
- 1965 - "Shinendo"
- 1967 - "Games"
- 1970 - "Fools"
- 1976 - "At the history of the mafia"
- 1980 - "Last Countdiction"
- 1986 - "Red-haired Wanderer"
- 1991 - "Weather for murder"
- 2001 - Donney Darco
- 2004 - "Metropolitan City"
- 2006 - "Dolphin's Eye"
- 2017 - "Hero"